A Peep Takes Six Seconds to Make

Marshmallow candy Peeps chicks move down a conveyor belt inside the Just Born Inc. manufacturing facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.

It takes just six seconds to create the popular Marshmallow Peep. When it first debuted in 1953, it took 27 hours to hand-create each edible yellow chick. But now Peeps get cranked out of machines at 3,500 per minute and four million per day.